Alexandra Kollontai

(1872-1952) was a Russian social democratic revolutionary who participated as a Bolshevik in the events of 1917 and subsequently worked in the Soviet government. She published extensively on party strategy, the "women's question," and communist social policy. She also wrote The Workers Opposition (1921), in defense of the soon-banned faction of the same name, as well as Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman (1926).

Only a radical change in the whole existence of the working class woman, in the conditions of her home and family life, as she acquires equal status with men in civil law will wipe out once and for all the barrier which to this day prevents the woman worker letting her forces flow freely into the class struggle.